Bled with kids - summer toboggan and a swim in the lake
Up by chairlift, down on a toboggan, then straight into the turquoise lake with a view of the island church. That's a perfect day in Bled.

Up by chairlift, down on a toboggan, then straight into the turquoise lake with a view of the island church. That's a perfect day in Bled.

Wooden walkways over a turquoise river, trout under your feet and a waterfall at the end. Then uphill to a small church with a mountain view and goats by the fence.

A yellow train takes you deep into the mountain, then you walk through halls so big they are hard to believe. And in a tank waits the "baby dragon", which you can't photograph with a flash.

A tent pitch right by the river, water so cold it tingles, and a stone dam we built together as a family. The best days of the whole holiday.

No tent this time: a mobile home with a terrace, thermal pools every day and sunsets over the water slides. Our week at Terme Čatež was our calmest holiday ever.

Thirteen slow days: thermal pools in Sárvár and Čatež, a train ride into Postojna Cave, Vintgar Gorge, Lake Bled and a stone dam in an ice-cold river. And at the end, 953 km home, a closed road near the border and an almost empty tank.